Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

现代艺术中另一个令人不安的因素是不成熟的常见症状,害怕做以前做过的事。

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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

你一开始写不好东西。你一开始写的都是废话,你认为这是好东西,然后渐渐地你就能写得更好了。这就是为什么我说最宝贵的品质之一是坚持。

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink.

写传记时,事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话,小说部分应该用红墨水印刷,事实部分应该用黑墨水。

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

坦率地说,指定用途不是问题所在。这是问题的征兆。

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

政治通常是人类不成熟的表现。

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

对许多人来说,不成熟是一种理想,而不是一种缺陷。